flam

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)

CIDE DICTIONARY

flam, n. [Cf. AS. fleám, fl, flight. Flimflam.].

 A freak or whim; also, a falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext; deception; delusion.  [1913 Webster]
"A perpetual abuse and flam upon posterity."  [1913 Webster]

flam, v. t. 

 To deceive with a falsehood.  [1913 Webster]
"God is not to be flammed off with lies."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

flam

ballot-box stuffing, balls, baloney, beat, beguile of, bilk, blague, bosh, bull, bullshit, bunco, bunk, bunkum, burn, cardsharping, cheat, cheating, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, claptrap, cock-and-bull story, cog, cog the dice, con, cozen, cozenage, crap, crib, deception, defraud, diddle, diddling, dishonesty, do in, do out of, dodge, euchre, exaggeration, eyewash, fairy tale, fake, fakement, falsehood, falsity, farfetched story, farrago, fib, fiction, finagle, fish story, fishy transaction, fleece, flimflam, fob, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, fudge, gammon, gerrymandering, ghost story, gouge, graft, grift, gull, gyp, gyp joint, half-truth, have, hoax, hocus, hocus-pocus, hogwash, hoke, hokum, hooey, humbug, humbuggery, illicit business, imposition, imposture, jiggery-pokery, legal fiction, lie, little white lie, mendacity, moonshine, mulct, pack the deal, phony, pigeon, pious fiction, practice fraud upon, prevarication, put-on, racket, rip-off, rook, scam, screw, sell, sell gold bricks, sham, shave, shortchange, slight stretching, spoof, stack the cards, stick, sting, story, swindle, take a dive, tale, tall story, tall tale, taradiddle, thimblerig, throw a fight, trumped-up story, untruth, victimize, white lie, yarn

ROGET THESAURUS

flam

Falsehood

N falsehood, falseness, falsity, falsification, deception, untruth, guile, lying, untruth, guile, lying, misrepresentation, mendacity, perjury, false swearing, forgery, invention, fabrication, subreption, covin, perversion of truth, suppression of truth, suppressio veri, perversion, distortion, false coloring, exaggeration, prevarication, equivocation, shuffling, fencing, evasion, fraud, suggestio falsi, mystification, simulation, dissimulation, dissembling, deceit, blague, sham, pretense, pretending, malingering, lip homage, lip service, mouth honor, hollowness, mere show, mere outside, duplicity, double dealing, insincerity, hypocrisy, cant, humbug, jesuitism, jesuitry, pharisaism, Machiavelism, organized hypocrisy, crocodile tears, mealy-mouthedness, quackery, charlatanism, charlatanry, gammon, bun-kum, bumcombe, flam, bam, flimflam, cajolery, flattery, Judas kiss, perfidy, il volto sciolto i pensieri stretti, unfairness, artfulness, misstatement, false, deceitful, mendacious, unveracious, fraudulent, dishonest, faithless, truthless, trothless, unfair, uncandid, hollow-hearted, evasive, uningenuous, disingenuous, hollow, sincere, Parthis mendacior, forsworn, artificial, contrived, canting, hypocritical, jesuitical, pharisaical, tartuffish, Machiavelian, double, double tongued, double faced, double handed, double minded, double hearted, double dealing, Janus faced, smooth-faced, smooth spoken, smooth tongued, plausible, mealy-mouthed, affected, collusive, collusory, artful, perfidious, spurious, untrue, falsified, covinous, falsely, a la tartufe, with a double tongue, silly, blandae mendacia lingua, falsus in uno falsus in omnibus, I give him joy that's awkward at a lie, la mentira tiene las piernas cortas, O what a goodly outside falsehood hath.